Thomas Williams Knihy

"This collection addresses issues of identity as two people find themselves living in an uncommon landscape. Through hybrid narrative prose poems, Hank and an unnamed narrator try to navigate their relationship and understand their identities amid a landscape that offers them almost nothing. The continent at first seems empty, but something emerges in the vacuum of Antarctica. The narrator's gender skips and changes, and the characters' self-awareness grows into a sort of horror. Dennis James Sweeney's poems consider the fullness of emptiness, revealing attempts to love and grow when surrounded by a white and frigid landscape that seems to go on forever. The space of these poems is something beyond the Antarctic of scientific exploration, the icy outpost that has served for so long as a masculine proving ground for polar explorers. This is the Antarctica of domestic disharmony, of love amid loneliness, where two people encounter themselves in the changeless breadth at the end of the world." -- Provided by publisher

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Focusing on the evaluation of thermal imagers, this reference offers detailed descriptions of equipment and techniques for testing both complete systems and their subunits. It emphasizes practical performance parameters relevant to industrial, laboratory, and surveillance applications, minimizing theoretical content. The author provides insights into measuring these parameters while also covering various specialized forms of thermal imagers, making it a valuable resource for professionals working with thermal imaging systems.

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The book explores the intense debates within the U.S. Congress regarding responses to radical Islamist piracy, particularly the extortion of non-Muslim merchant ships. It highlights Captain William Bainbridge's experiences, including his capture and imprisonment from 1803 to 1805, and his pivotal role in advocating for a stronger naval defense against threats. The narrative culminates in Bainbridge's heroic battle aboard Old Ironsides against HMS Java in 1812, illustrating the dire consequences of America's previous inaction and the urgent need for a robust military response.

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME 'MUST-READ' 'An extraordinarily thought-provoking memoir that makes a controversial contribution to the fraught debate on race and racism . . . intellectually stimulating and compelling' SUNDAY TIMES A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multi-generational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a 'black' father from the segregated South and a 'white' mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of 'black blood' makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he'd never rigorously reflected on its foundations - but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his daughter is white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them - or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.

Presents the history of two RAF squadrons - 190 and 620 - who shared the task of dropping agents and supplies on behalf of the SOE, took part in the D-Day landings, suffered heavy losses at Arnhem, dropped SAS Troops behind enemy lines and were involved with the Rhine crossing that sealed Germany's fate in 1945.

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